Finally!
We received this anonymous photo via email last night and the whole team here loves it. This is food as art. Whomever sent this did a great job with placing additional items on/around the 5-can chili pyramid stack. This piece speaks out with a message. We will post our own individual takes on the metaphors going on in this piece as we firm them up.
Not to long ago the FPT team reviewed a new offering from the good folks at Cheetos...Wild White Cheddar. The glowing review prompted me to head out and find a bag myself, as i find Cheetos to be a great snack and usually enjoy their limited time experimental flavor concoctions. Plus white cheddar is one of my all time favorite flavorings. After searching far and wide for these elusive Wild White Cheddar Cheetos with no luck of finding them, I assumed they were a regional offering that had not made it to my area(I live in a mountainous region in the upper elevations of West Virginia so it is not uncommon to miss out on stuff like this).
After mentioning this to TEAM FPT at the Fat Pride Times, they was kind enough to purchase me a bag and send them across the the great USA so i could experience this limited time offer.
Upon opening the package from TEAM FPT, I was honored to find a full size bag of Wild White Cheddar Cheetos. I was expecting a small grab bag 99 cent sized bag, in hindsight i don't know why i would have expected a small portion bag from the good folks at the FPT, after all they are Priders and Priders buy Prider sized products.
My first taste of these Cheetos was a bit of a let down. They were not overpowering with cheese flavor, and actually tasted rather similar to the original cheetos. As i continued to sample them i found them to have a unique flavor that was indeed different than the original Cheetos. These Cheetos are easy to eat, and i credit that to the non overpowering White Cheddar flavoring, making them a very bender friendly snack. In fact i had to put the bag in a different room to write up this review.
EDITOR'S COMMENT: Really now - thats rather over-dramatic.
These cheetos also did not leave my hands cheese stained, like the original cheetos we are all familiar with. I was thankful for this as the cheese staining is very difficult to remove.
In summation, these are a unique yet not overpowering offering from Cheetos, however they are not my favorite all time Cheeto flavor. That title still belongs to the Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos.
Again, many thanks to FP and the great people at the Fat Pride Times for sending and sharing this snack bag with a fellow prider on the other side of the country. A tip of the cap to you all!
EDITOR'S COMMENT: The FPT thanks Etathed for all oh his fine contributions over the years to this site - we have a different take on these - as we found them to be the best Cheetos ever! As we tell everyone who writes a post for us - tell it like it is, we keep it real here. FYI: Yancy is little upset we did not do this on a tri-trade level. But we are happy to purchase and ship to Etathed at our expense. Sometimes it is not all about the multi-tiered trades Yancy.
My MOBI assignment this last weekend was to attend the Confluence Festival in Gardiner Oregon, a small coastal town that I have been exploring as of late.
The festival was held at the local school. The lineup of bands was pretty good for such an event, it was a nice break from crap local bands like Kush and Mr Wizard, and it was nice to not see a Ron Jeremy look-a-like playing saxaphone. The food was off the hook. Canby Asparagus Farm clearly won the day with their mix of tamales, salsa, and chips. They did some darn fine work and my wife says that it was some of the best Mexican food she has ever experienced. They are located in Milwaukie Oregon on Main Street.
The vendor booths were fun, and crammed into a 100-year old gymnasium. The highlight of the evernt for me was the *lovely* bouquet of veggie made flowers, look closely and you will be amazed. The nice lady what made the arrangement was, well, nice.
The "beer and wine" part of the festival was predictable. All I wanted was a Corona, but there was nothing to be had but local microbrews which I find to be absolute swill. We had a great time taking in the event and the lovely town of Gardiner. I highly recommend this festival.
-- Barnabus
Team FPT immediately went Mobi when we heard about this new offering at Carl's Jr, we have a fondness for sourdough bread - especially when used as the 'bun' on a burger.
This was really cheesy good. We got the standard burger and found it to be all we expected - we know the 6.00 version (which actually sells for 5.oo and change) has got to be off the charts.
Most important thing going on with this new burger is the cheese - there is a lot of cheese. Look at the photos above - in the one with the finger, if you look closely you can see a strand of the cheddar stretching from the burger. The photos of the wrapper that is cheese-laden also show that there is no skimping here - it is truly cheesy - cannot emphasize that enough.
Team FPT loves this burger - get one. If you hook up with Carl's Jr. on Facebook & Twitter - you can get web-exclusive coupons!
When the Team FPT mini-van rolled up to Arby's on a recent junket - we almost backed out. There was nobody there - at least inside, not sure about the drive-thru - but would have noticed if there were a lot of cars. This was around 8pm - as the photos show this place was not happening.
However, we were armed with a coupon for 2 of their 'premium' bacon swiss chicken sandwiches for 4.00 - and we did the math using the risk/reward model and decied to go for it. After ordering, a few people wandered in, suprisingly enough they all ahd coupons. Arby's must stay afloat with their coupons - as we see them all the time in various publications.
To the sandwiches, they were fresh - by default, and not too bad. They seemed like 2.00 sandwiches and without the coupon they would have been 3.99 each. So what did we learn from this junket? If you are not banking coupons - Arby's might not be the best choice. Plus we got that weird burned to the crisp maximus tip on the end of our bacon. Team FPT is not ready to endorse or not-endorse Arby's at this time. Our entire staff will do a sit-down roundtable and de-brief ourselves about this visit ASAP.
Team FPT decided to try the newer Hot Pockets "Subs" line - and with based on the box photo we chose the "Spicy Pepperoni" ones. These are simple heat and eat microwave mini-meals. Everything seemed to be just fine until we took a bite.
There is so little inside of this bread/bun that we found ourselves confused again from a packaging food photo - The pictures above are self-explanatory. Look at the box - then look at our test sub. It was so bad that we decided to bite the other end off - and yes, you can see right thru it like a hollow tube.
This is one of the FPT Team pet-peeves and is perhaps our best dramatic example of mis-represenation of said foodstuffs. Shame on you Hot Pockets.
Regular MOBI contributor Chris Norton has sent us an interesting photo that we cannot explain just yet. These are Totino's pizza rolls - we are quite familair with these. However, bacon-wrapped? Norton did not go into detail as this was an on the fly MOBI upload - we will have more info ASAP.
Team FPT member Etathed opened up his freezer over the weekend to find he had the "paranormal" ice-spikes/stalagmites in his ice cube trays. Refer to our earlier post for other photos of these at the FPT test kitchens.
Our friend Yancy says he is doing the math behind this, he is weird smart and will provide some quality info for us to post soon.
Spotted this AM at a Kwik-E-Mart and captured via mobi-device by former reader turned FPT Team staffer Bertranndo.
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This lid, manafactured by Solo, is all one could want in a hot beverage lid. Thank Heaven For 7-11 as they say. We have not seen this lid anywhere else. If you look closely at the pictures above, you can see a little handle on the rim that you can move - which in turn will cover or uncover the sip hole. Simple, but beautifully genuis. Safe - spillage is not an issue here.
This week I reviewed the Hardee’s Portobello Mushroom Melt Thickburger. This sandwich is a 100% Black Angus Beef Patty topped with sautéed Portabello Mushrooms, grilled onions, and two sliced of melted Swiss cheese, all served on a toasted sourdough bread. Once again, the sandwich looked very much as advertised which I have to take a moment to congratulate Hardee’s on. As I said in my last review, usually when you get fast food, the sandwiches look like they were thrown together then dropped on the floor and stepped on before being served. This is not true with the Hardee’s sandwiches I have reviewed.
From the first bite, I thoroughly loved this sandwich. The mushrooms were prepared correctly and the sauce they were cooked in was flavorful. The onions on the other hand were almost completely not there. I was disappointed in this because I really like onions. The meat was cooked correctly and the swiss cheese was a perfect addition to the sandwich. The bread however, seemed to get sopped in all the sauce and while I do really love sourdough, a thicker bread may have worked to keep the sandwich from becoming too messy. Overall this was a fantastic sandwich and has this reviewer looking forward to trying the 1/3lb, Mushroom N’ Swiss thickburger.
"I didn't know that eating pork improved sexual activity," Argentine President Fernandez said to food industry professionals. "It is much more gratifying to eat some grilled pork than to take Viagra."
A reader sent along this photo of a sign - looks like from a carnival or a boardwalk style sign. It is pimping deep fried Twinkies and if you look above - it appears that they also have deep fried frog legs and it says "tastes like chicken".
The photo was sent anonymously - and we are intrigued. Any priders out there know more about this or perhaps even tried these things?
